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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Chapter II, "Mother and Son" Pages 65-81.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens immediately after Yukio leaves the café to make a phone call?
(a) Nagare bumps into him on the stairs.
(b) The ghost gets up from her seat.
(c) He realizes that he has left his phone inside.
(d) Kazu locks the outer door.

2. According to Chapter I, "Best Friends," what do most lies have in common?
(a) They bolster the ego.
(b) They lead to regret.
(c) They prevent hurt feelings.
(d) They ruin relationships.

3. What is the name of the time-traveling café?
(a) Hakuna Matata.
(b) Auld Lang Syne.
(c) Que Sera Sera.
(d) Funiculi Funicula.

4. What causes most potential customers to lose interest in the café's ability to send people back in time?
(a) They find that the hidden cost of going back in time is too much to bear.
(b) They realize that they will not be able to follow all of the café's rules.
(c) They do not have the patience to wait as long as necessary for the time-traveling seat to be available.
(d) They are disappointed that they will not be able to change anything about the present.

5. What is the first thing that Shuichi wants to know once he understands that Gohtaro has come from the future?
(a) Whether something has happened to his daughter, Haruka.
(b) How many years in the future Gohtaro came from.
(c) What time travel does to a person's body and if Gohtaro feels okay.
(d) Whether time travel works in the opposite direction.

Short Answer Questions

1. Besides a love of insects, what does the narrator say links Japanese culture to the other culture discussed in the opening of "Mother and Son"?

2. What conclusion does Shuichi draw from the way Gohtaro handles the camera?

3. Where is the time-traveling café located?

4. Which is the best description of how Yukio feels when he returns to the present?

5. What reason does Kyoko give for being so pleased that Kazu has a boyfriend?

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